Echoes from the South: Comprising the Most Important Speeches, Proclamations, and Public Acts Emanating from the South During the Late WarE. B. Treat & Company, 1866 - 211 頁 This work contains speeches, addresses, and public records from the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
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... Government under which they live . We are now , indeed , surrounded by evils . Never since I entered upon the public stage has the country been so environed with difficulties and dan- gers that threatened the public peace and the very ...
... Government under which they live . We are now , indeed , surrounded by evils . Never since I entered upon the public stage has the country been so environed with difficulties and dan- gers that threatened the public peace and the very ...
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... governments , upon questions of public policy , is natural . That men should dis- agree upon all matters connected with human inves- tigation , whether relating to science or human conduct , is natural . Hence , in free governments ...
... governments , upon questions of public policy , is natural . That men should dis- agree upon all matters connected with human inves- tigation , whether relating to science or human conduct , is natural . Hence , in free governments ...
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... Government , to withdraw from it because a man has been constitu- tionally elected , puts us in the wrong . We are pledged to maintain the Constitution . Many of us have sworn to support it . Can we , therefore , for the mere election ...
... Government , to withdraw from it because a man has been constitu- tionally elected , puts us in the wrong . We are pledged to maintain the Constitution . Many of us have sworn to support it . Can we , therefore , for the mere election ...
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... Government and go out of the Union on that account , the record would be made up hereafter against us . But it is said Mr. Lincoln's policy and principles are against the Constitution , and that if he carries them out it will be ...
... Government and go out of the Union on that account , the record would be made up hereafter against us . But it is said Mr. Lincoln's policy and principles are against the Constitution , and that if he carries them out it will be ...
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... Government stop , if the National Democratic men - for that is their name at the North -the conservative men in the Senate , should so determine . Then , how can Mr. Lincoln cbtain a cabinet which would aid him , or allow him to violate ...
... Government stop , if the National Democratic men - for that is their name at the North -the conservative men in the Senate , should so determine . Then , how can Mr. Lincoln cbtain a cabinet which would aid him , or allow him to violate ...
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第 49 頁 - Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
第 58 頁 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twentythird day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
第 59 頁 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
第 114 頁 - Every order, resolution or vote, to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary, (except on a question of adjournment...
第 87 頁 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
第 127 頁 - The President shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of the next session ; but no person rejected by the Senate shall be reap126 ECHOES FROM THE SOUTH. pointed to the same office during their ensuing recess.
第 68 頁 - Constitution, are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution aforesaid is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.
第 127 頁 - President, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty ; and when so removed, the removal shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor.
第 76 頁 - Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government and the inalienable rights of the people of the States will prevent...
第 109 頁 - The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment; except that any judicial or other Federal officer, resident and acting solely within the limits of any State, may be impeached by a vote of two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature thereof.